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CITRIS
Nina Amenta is the new Director at UC Davis
She will help guide the CITRIS Initiatives and enhance collaboration between the UC Davis researchers and the other three CITRIS campuses.
Student competition at CITRIS: $45K in prizes
Our annual student competition for student-led proposals.
Jay Han has been named CITRIS Medical Director
Dr. Han is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the UC Davis School of Medicine.
UCSC-Cisco partnership in Network Management and Operations expands to UC Davis
The goal of the NMO Lab is to engage students and faculty by addressing real-world problems in complex networks, and in a variety of topics that include quality of service, customer support, intelligent and automated management of network devices.
Turning Data into Democratic Action: Social Apps Lab at CITRIS
This is a problem of knowledge, specifically of local information, since dengue fever’s prevention depends on eliminating local breeding sites.
Employing mobile-phone-based games to empower individuals: Aug/Sept 2011 newsletter
We are very excited here at CITRIS about the innovative applications of basic information technologies and principles to some very resistant societal problems.
Fall 2011 i4Energy Seminar Series
The Fall series will begin in September.
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule for Fall 2011
The fall Research Exchange schedule is now online
Nesbitt named director of CITRIS Initiative: Delivering ‘Quality Healthcare Everywhere’ for Californians
The mission of this initiative is to improve access and reduce disparities in health care.
Announcing our new initiatives – CITRIS newsletter for June 2011
CITRIS’s ‘Big Bets’ emerge out of our strategic planning work and address problems that are of significant importance. They each address a fundamental requirement for human life: Health, Sustainability and Energy.
David Culler appointed Faculty Director of i4Energy
The mission of i4Energy to facilitate and promote research on system-integrated enabling technologies that will achieve better energy efficiency, improved demand / response, and dramatic improvements in energy distribution.
Congratulations to this year’s Big Ideas winners
This year, CITRIS awarded five student-led proposals a total of $45,000 in prize money at the April 14 poster session for our annual White Paper competition
Detecting Gas Molecules with Low-Voltage Ionization
A new approach could allow for more affordable, efficient, and portable gas-detecting devices that could revolutionize industry.
Letter from the Director for April/May
The world is full of valuable information that, if known, would save money, lives, and numerous resources. The trusses supporting our bridges contain information about when the aging structures will become dangerous to cross.
Ali Javey: Putting smart little x on a rugged (or cheap, or flexible, or sticky)
Professor Ali Javey works at the intersection of chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science, and physics.
Virtual Archaeology exhibit at the CITRIS Tech Museum, April 16-22
The CITRIS Tech Museum will display a new exhibit that is virtual, 3D and interactive
March 7 deadline for CITRIS Big Ideas 2011
The deadline for our annual contest for student research is March 7, 2011
Fruitful partnership between CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark
New partnership between CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark involves joint conferences and workshops as well as Visiting Scholarships
NSF’s Edward Seidel discussed Global Cyberinfrastructure on March 17
Modern science is undergoing a profound transformation as it aims to tackle the complex problems of the 21st Century.
CITRIS Events
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Letter from the Director, Feb. 2011
For the last decade, we at CITRIS have focused our efforts there, developing intelligent technologies that help measure, track, and manage water, energy, and other key resources in innovative ways that benefit the economy, the environment, and our quality of life.
Water Sense: CITRIS MOTES and Wireless Networks Deployed to Help Monitor and Manage California’s Water Supply
A CITRIS-supported collaboration between scientists at UC Merced and UC Berkeley professor is deploying networks of wireless sensors in a prototype project at the National Science Foundation’s Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory. The sensors measure snow depth and other environmental factors that, once known, will allow much better measurement and prediction of the availability of our most precious resource.
Jeopardy! viewing party at CITRIS a big hit
Hundreds of CITRIS researchers and students gathered at Sutardja Dai Hall on Feb. 16 to watch the game’s finale starring Watson.